Web Extra: Extended interview with Alexander Downer

Australia has tonight agreed in principle to sell uranium to India, after a phone conversation just a short time ago with the Indian Prime Minister. The plan is controversial because India is a nuclear power that still refuses to sign the non-proliferation treaty. It follows a similar decision earlier this year by the Bush administration. Already the move has been attacked by arms control experts as a dangerous erosion of proliferation controls and Labor has vowed to oppose it. But the Government argues that it will at least bring India's civil nuclear program under international inspection as it embarks on a program of building many more nuclear power stations.